I was listening to the radio during my morning commute and after I arrived at work, I was wishing I hadn’t done so. Most of the news was an offensive parade of idiotic statements from a procession of political fucktards; things like the Attorney General and the President defending the indefensible practice of warrantless surveillance of citizens, and men declaring—with straight faces—that we need to go easy on reforms intended to break up the unholy, greasy 69 position of moneyed lobbyists and Congress. Fuck all those guys. Screw "reform"; we need to ring the Beltway with heads on pikes.

Anyway, what I found most incredulous, was this pinhead "analyst" that NPR dredged up to comment on Disney’s acquisition of Pixar. Why this piece of garbage got stuck in my craw when there are more important issues at hand, I can’t tell you, but it did. This dumb son of a bitch lauded the purchase, calling it good for both parties, but especially for Pixar. There was nothing remarkable about this statement, but it was quickly followed by his punch line reasoning: it was good for Disney because they’d be picking up a great studio, and better for Pixar’s folks because now the people at Pixar finally had a future.

See, the way this big genius figured it, Pixar was "subsisting on one movie a year" [emphasis mine], and that the miserable lumpen proletariat at Pixar was no longer trapped in their dead-end Pixar jobs; they would now have opportunities to explore other career paths within the larger company.

Right. Those poor folks at Pixar, barely making ends meet, locked into crappy jobs at a moribund animation studio. I happen to know a few things for sure about the animation business: one is that Disney basically churned out one major feature a year, too, but they have a massive marketing and media empire to cover for all their flops, which were flops because they lacked what really makes Pixar flicks great: superior writing, not the technology (though that, of course, is most impressive as well). Two, the people I’ve met that are in animation generally love their work, and are often willing to starve now and again just to keep on doing it.

What really gets me going is that ol’ Einstein, some senior business analyst with Simpleton, Harumph, & Dross (or whatever his firm was called) is most likely "earning" a six-figure salary for spewing nonsense like this out of his ass. I guess I should have majored in Pontification instead of studying Political Science, foreign language, and Information Technology.